Posts in: Turn Those Dials! (series)

In July and August of 2013, Jacob released a short series or articles called “Turn Those Dials!” which was about ‘hacking’ with Fate Core to tweak the rules to fit the playing style of you and your crew. Links to each of those posts are found below.

This is the fourth and final installment of my Turn Those Dials! series. It has been brought to my attention that some people who read these articles are completely lost, since they don’t know how to play the game. That’s fine with me, since these are technically ‘advanced’ topics on how to alter the game…

Welcome back to another post of Turn Those Dials!, posts about the ‘dials’ of Fate Core. If you’re unfamiliar with this dials concept and/or missed my previous articles of Turn Those Dials!, check out my previous articles on Aspects and Skills. In this post, as is evident by the title, we are going to have…

This article goes over the dials pertaining to Skills, which have several built-in dials. Skills, in my opinion, are the second most important part of the Fate character sheet, after Aspects. Other than those two, the only other things that are mostly necessary are consequences, which you can play without as well, if you’re willing…

Fate Core isn’t the only way to play Fate. Technically, Fate Core is a predetermined setting for all of its various “dial’s”. These dials, as the creators of Fate call them, are all the different numbers that can be adjusted for different styles of gameplay. This article (and its following parts) will go over all…